Thursday, 27 August 2009

Crisis is Business as Usual

The UK government has given £52.8m to coal bosses to extend a range of mines around Britain, while the Guardian report that they have given only £2.3m to Marine Renewables.

The world's armed forces use 25% of the world's aviation fuel, 42 million tons per year.The arms trade uses 30% of the world's aluminium.The US military alone is the world's largest oil consumer. It emits more toxins than the top 5 chemical companies combined; half the world's CFC and two thirds of the world's CFC-113.

"With its never-ending emphasis on production and profit, and its indifference to environment, transnational corporate capitalism appears determined to stand outside nature. The driving goal of the giant investment firms is to convert natural materials into commodities and commodities into profits, transforming living nature into vast accumulations of dead capital."Michael Parenti

The IMechE say we will be able to build artificial trees in ten years but do not advocate any immediate action such as re-foresting land currently used for meat production with proper trees.

"Government policies and economic and political inequalities, rather than human fertility, are the major causes of forest destruction, through the promotion of coffee and other export crops; colonial tax policies that stimulate migration and land clearing; and privatization of common lands for extractive concessions."James Oldham

Share of energy from renewable sources in final consumption of energy (according to the House of Lords!)

North East Open Cast Action Group

Coal Map

About Me

Toonclimateaction is a group of indivduals that are concerned about climate change,habitat loss and social justice. We want to take action to stop the desruction of our natural resources and create a fair world for everybody to share.It feels like it's fairly pointless marching from A to B or sending loads of petitions to M.Ps if these methods worked we'd live in a utopia. As a species we need to act quickly if we are to avert climate change by taking direct action against the causes of ecological desruction,We need to live low impact lives and educate ourselves and each other to be able to live sustainable
lifestyles.